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Marko Hoare
Marko Attila Hoare (born 1972) is a British historian of the former Yugoslavia who also writes about current affairs, especially Southeast Europe, including Turkey and the Caucasus. Hoare is Associate Professor of History at the University Sarajevo School of Science and Technology, in Sarajevo. Early life and education Hoare is the son of the British translator Quintin Hoare and the Croatian journalist and historian Branka Magaš. Hoare has been studying the history of the former Yugoslavia since 1993. In the summer of 1995, he acted as translator for the humanitarian aid convoy to the Bosnian town of Tuzla, organised by Workers' Aid for Bosnia, a movement of solidarity in support of the Bosnian people. His degrees in History are a BA (1994; later converted to an MA) from the University of Cambridge and a MPhil (1997) and PhD from Yale University (2000). [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quintin Hoare
Quintin Hoare (born 1938) is a British leftist intellectual and literary translator from languages including Italian, French, German, Russian and Bosnian."Authors , Quintin Hoare" . After studying Modern Languages at , in 1962 Hoare joined the editorial board of '''', serving as its managing editor from 1963 to 1979. He and his wife, the |
Master Of Arts (Oxbridge And Dublin)
In the universities of University of Oxford, Oxford, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, and University of Dublin, Dublin, Bachelor of Arts, Bachelors of Arts (BAs) are promoted to the rank of Master of Arts (MA), typically upon application after three or four years after graduation. No further examination or study is required for this promotion, which is a mark of seniority rather than an additional postgraduate qualification. According to the formula of ''ad eundem gradum'', the graduates of the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, and Dublin are eligible to apply to incorporate and be granted equivalent academic degrees at any of the other two universities, provided that they wish to register for such a degree or are members of the academic staff; they also pay a required fee. The example of the "Steamboat ladies" (roughly 720 women graduates of both Oxford and Cambridge who received Dublin academic degrees) is one of the most popular incidents of incorporation. While not an earn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry's Place
Harry's Place is a British centre-left political blog which is pro-Israel and supports a hawkish foreign policy. It is notable for being one of the first influential political blogs in Britain. In 2005, Harry's Place got 9,000 visitors a day, about half the traffic of Samizdata which was then Britain's most popular political blog. The blog was founded by disaffected leftists after the September 11 attacks. Politics ''Harry's Place'' was supportive of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the concept of liberal interventionism Liberal internationalism is a foreign policy doctrine that supports international institutions, open markets, cooperative security, and liberal democracy. At its core, it holds that states should participate in international institutions that up ..., and liberal dissident movements in the Islamic world. It is a supporter of a two-state solution to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. It is opposed to Islamism and what it characterizes as totalitarian, pro-Islamis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Euston Manifesto
The Euston Manifesto ( ) is a 2006 declaration of principles signed by a group of academics, journalists and activists based in the United Kingdom, named after the Euston Road in London where it had its meetings. The statement was a reaction to what the writers argued to be widespread violations of left-wing principles by others who were commonly associated with the Left. The manifesto states that "the reconfiguration of progressive opinion that we aim for involves drawing a line between forces on the Left that remain true to its authentic values, and currents that have lately shown themselves rather too flexible about these values"."The Euston Manifesto" , 29 March 2006. The manifesto proposed a "fresh political alignment", which involves "making common cause with genuine democrats, whether socialist or not", in which the L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spirit Of Bosnia
''Spirit of Bosnia'' (Bosnian: ''Duh Bosne'') is a quarterly literary magazine that covers scholarly research and writing on the history, politics, and literature of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It publishes works of fiction and non-fiction reflective of its mission and was established in 2006. Its editor-in-chief is Keith Doubt (Wittenberg University). From 2006-2011, Omer Hadžiselimović (Loyola University) was co-editor. Description ''Spirit of Bosnia'' publishes articles, poems, book reviews, and other features and encourages the work of scholars, researchers, and readers around the world interested in Bosnia, frequently representing the sole open access source in English available for information about the culture and history of this region. It has debuted English translations of many Bosnian poets and writers, making their work accessible to a broad audience, and provides Bosnian translation of English-language contributions, providing reciprocal access to these works. Writers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Democratiya
''Democratiya'' was a free quarterly online review of books with the aim to "stimulate discussion of radical democratic political theory". Sixteen editions were produced from 2005 until a final edition in Autumn 2009, after which ''Democratiya'' merged with ''Dissent'' magazine. ''Democratiya''’s founding editor was Alan Johnson, a professor in the Department of Social and Psychological Sciences at Edge Hill University in Lancashire, England, and a co-author of the Euston Manifesto. ''Democratiya''’s topics ranged over many issues, including those relating to war, human rights, the United Nations, democracy, and the international community. Books Alan Johnson edited and wrote the introduction to a 2008 collection, ''Global Politics After 9/11: The Democratiya Interviews'', containing conversations about the dilemmas of progressive foreign policy after 9/11, that had first been published in ''Democratiya''. The collection includes interviews with Paul Berman, Ladan Boroumand ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Douglas Murray (author)
Douglas Murray (born 16 July 1979) is a British neoconservative political commentator, cultural critic, and journalist. He is currently an associate editor of the conservative British political and cultural magazine ''The Spectator,'' and has been a regular contributor to ''The Times'', ''The Daily Telegraph,'' ''The Sun,'' the ''Daily Mail,'' ''New York Post, National Review'', '' The Free Press'', and ''UnHerd''. His books include '' Neoconservatism: Why We Need It'' (2006), ''The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam'' (2017), '' The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity'' (2019), ''The War on the West'' (2022), and ''On Democracies and Death Cults: Israel, Hamas and the Future of the West'' (2025). Murray was the associate director of the Henry Jackson Society, a neoconservative think tank, from 2011 to 2018. Murray is a critic of current immigration into Europe and of Islam. He became more well-known internationally due to his advocacy for Israel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Jackson Society
The Henry Jackson Society (HJS) is a trans-Atlantic foreign policy and national security think tank, based in the United Kingdom. While describing itself as non-partisan, its outlook has been described variously as right-wing, neoliberal, and neoconservative. The Society identifies itself with a "forward strategy" to spread democracy and liberal values globally. It is currently focused primarily on supporting global democracy in the face of threats from China and Russia. The Society is also known for its reports related to Islamic and far-right extremism. The Society is named after the US Senator and leading Democrat, Henry M. Jackson. American political journalist, Michael Allen, described the society as "a non-partisan group that convenes transatlantic center-left, center-right and independent figures committed to Jackson's legacy of 'democratic geopolitics.'" History The Society was founded on 11 March 2005 by academics and students at Cambridge, including Brendan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Faculty Of History, University Of Cambridge
The Faculty of History is one of the constituent departments of the University of Cambridge. Teaching and research of history has centuries old roots at Cambridge and the first Regius Professorship of Modern History was established by King George I in 1724. The History Faculty is one of the largest history departments in the world with well over a hundred faculty members. Each academic year a new intake more than two hundred undergraduates is admitted and the Faculty also has more than 450 graduate students studying for masters degrees and the PhD. It is notable among Cambridge's faculties for the influence of List of Cambridge History Faculty alumni, its alumni in public life. The Faculty is divided into eight subject groups (i.e. areas of research and teaching): American History; Ancient and Medieval History; Early Modern History; Economic, Social and Cultural History; Modern British History; Modern European History; Political Thought And Intellectual History; and World Histo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Academy
The British Academy for the Promotion of Historical, Philosophical and Philological Studies is the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and the social sciences. It was established in 1902 and received its royal charter in the same year. It is now a fellowship of more than 1,000 leading scholars spanning all disciplines across the humanities and social sciences and a funding body for research projects across the United Kingdom. The academy is a self-governing and independent registered charity, based at 10–11 Carlton House Terrace in London. The British Academy is primarily funded with annual government grants. In 2022, £49.3m of its £51.7m of charitable income came from the Department for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy – in the same year it took in around £2.0m in trading income and £0.56m in other income. This funding is expected to continue under the new Department for Business and Trade. Purposes The academy states that it has five fundam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bosnian Institute
The Bosnian Institute was an organization founded by Dr. Quintin Hoare in July 1997 and first registered on 7 October 1997, as a United Kingdom Registered Charity. The institute was based in London, and headed by Dr. Quintin Hoare, who was a joint founding editor with Branka Magaš of published quarterly online magazine called '' Bosnia Report''. It was principally devoted to, ''"educate people throughout the world and particularly in the United Kingdom about the history and culture of Bosnia-Herzegovina, its social economic, governmental, legal and cultural conditions, organizations and institutions"'', that is providing studying and information on history, politics, culture and education of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the region of former Yugoslavia. The Bosnian Institute was founded with a grant from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, and was continually funded by this foundation and the ''Friends of the Bosnian Institute'', alongside to other donors. Staff The board o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
International Criminal Tribunal For The Former Yugoslavia
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) was a body of the United Nations that was established to prosecute the war crimes in the Yugoslav Wars, war crimes that had been committed during the Yugoslav Wars and to try their perpetrators. The tribunal was an ''ad hoc'' court located in The Hague, Netherlands. It was established by United Nations Security Council Resolution 827, Resolution 827 of the United Nations Security Council, which was passed on 25 May 1993. It had jurisdiction over four clusters of crimes committed on the territory of the former Yugoslavia since 1991: grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions, violations of the laws or customs of war, genocide, and crimes against humanity. The maximum sentence that it could impose was life imprisonment. Various countries signed agreements with the United Nations to carry out custodial sentences. A total of 161 persons were indicted; the final indictments were issued in December 2004, the last of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
